A correspondent who has been tavelling in South China writes Last summer in Kuling, just after the war bad broken out, was stated that German missionaries in South China would be cut off from funds and in consequent distress. As their work was stated to be purely Christian and not political the charitable were urged to contribute to a fund for their relief. Many Britons and Americans contributed.
Whether Pakhoi German missionaries participated in this fund or not Iam unable to say, but the German missionaries there use their mission press to issue a small pamphlot once week containing all kinds of lies about Great Britain. The missionaries themselves take the pamphlets and distribute them free to all the shops, etc.
The German Consuls in the southern ports, before war was declared, went up to Hongkong and carried down in cash and notes to their consulates some 812,000 to 815,000 each. They knew what was coming.
Germans of all sort throughout South China have consistently and persistently spread calumnies about Great Britain and these the Chinese at first believed. Now the Chinese will not accept German cheques and ask: "If you are so victorious, how is it we never see German ship, but British ships are greater in number than ever before?"
The pamphlet stating the British point of view, which was published by Mr. E. 8. Little, has been a great success, many Chinese news papers reproducing it in full reported in Singapore that e mutineers were found with varying sums of gold upon them which had been supplied by Ger: mans. The Government is severely censured for ite leniency towans the Germans. In Hongkong the German prisoners of war are exceptionally well treated. They occupy their leisure in carefully counting up the list of claims they are going to present to the British Govern: ment when the war is over and Germany is lord of the universe!
Chinese are running German businesses and one German in Hoihow openly boasts that he is using ships flying. all the allied fags.
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